Short Covetous Poems

Concrete city
A rat race

Blind ghosts covetous
In dark corners
Melancholic
Over dead dreams...

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Red.
Burning.
Covetous.
Neurons on fire.
You are the one thing.
The many things.
I let go.
But not.
Yet

- maria
10.12.15...

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I love you
Like the sunset.
My covetous eyes 
Want you.
My soul freely escorts you
To where you need to shine.

- maria
5.5.16...

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Untitled

covetous chipmunk,
turgid sunflower seeds;
where are the dry ones hidden!!!??

                             Carol Mahan...

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I strive to become great and not to be poor,
so when the needy comes I would open my door,
and bring corrupt and covetous fellows to the floor....

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Dawn
hopeful, expectant
tantalizing, exhilarating, inviting
friends, citizens, government, politicians
inciting, embezzling, dictating
greedy, covetous
Darkness...

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Sharp Suited Sharks 
Feeding
Fervently Feasting, Foul Fiends 
Covetous Cuthroats, Cultured Convicts Convincing
Innocents Inked In Immensely Incurred Interests, 
Indebted
Enslaved, Effaced Emotions, Exasperated...

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With every religion…
to share in the blame

Masking out God,
in costumes of shame

Seeking to own
what they can’t understand

A covetous folly
—a heavenly sham

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)...

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He begets the inferno within
Such impediments
To one's own happiness
Covetous in his own disguise 
A condemnation to misery
Constrained to emotional infantilism 
All forlorn and empty
He can't attain anything 
Other than froth.......

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Death in comparison,
  a covetous dispatch

Jealousy reflected,
  its courtiers attack

An emperor left naked,
  his crown a vacant throne

Jesters flee the castle
   —as envy sits alone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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The world is not driven by greed
it’s driven by envy …
Commandment 10 is carved in stone
positioned at the end
Where old injunctions miss their mark
a covetous reminder
Desirous of another’s place
—the devil painted green

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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Look into the eyes of the suffering 
For a moment open your soul to 
The riches of you covetous love
Keep you blind from the future
And the loss of your vitality

Be wary of the truths 
Unknown to those who create the illusion of comfort
For no man can understand fulfill love
At the sacrifice of another being...

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My covetous nature 
Has left you in a state of perturbation
Betraying my diffident manner
As if I have been possessed
Maybe I am
For what agitates you
Torments me endlessly
Like a ghostly presence roaming the earth 
In search of peace
I will never find it
Because jealousy is my master
That rules over me...

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Are you rapacious with your poetry,
avaricious in your verse

Covetous of those words you read,
jealous—maybe worse

Do your thoughts deceive with what you write,
does bad intention rule the day

Those tracks you leave, the trap you’ve set
—with you the final prey

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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The sanctimonious tabernacle; where the desolated tongues confess.
The covetous, unwed beds are hungry, exuberant anatomies get undressed.
The biased courthouse; where many admissible lies rattle but hardly unfold.
The lewd jail cells are full, innocent bodies, minds, and souls loathly probed.








Create An Idiom...

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There are two sides to a coin

First toss

Masterful
Ingenious
Decisive
Discerning 
Liberal
Enterprising

Cautious
Lithe
Astute
Suave
Sensitive

Time to flip to the other side 

Muted
Insular
Disdainful
Dubious
Lacking
Envious

Covetous
Lumbering
Artful
Selfish
Shallow

It all depends on how you view it...

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How am I so wounded by you?
Arrows never shoot, but run me through
Beautiful viper poisoning; stares straight, not a skew
I'm glad to be seen by their bite; I'll be its anti-venom, too
Covetous my own thoughts of envy; verdurous thy view
They're green and ravenous, but see me in a form so true
Eyes that sing a siren song; control my affection they do!...

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Hiding in a lake of tears
lie the dreams of those
whose pale, wan faces
are reflected 
in its subtle waters.

On moonlit nights,
when covetous thoughts
weave a silent web of fear
love songs are empty 
to the solitary ear.

Uncanny, the billowing shadows
that haunt the souls 
of the lost and lonely
whose tears go unnoticed
who surrender to the void....

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desire

                            covetous, thirsty

                 arousing, enticing, pursuing

eagerness, ambition, madness, preoccupation

                stalking, fixating, concerning

                      complex, pathological

                                obsession



Date written: 04/30/2023...

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When the birds are spilling down from the sky 
And all the ocean dwellers are floating 
Human carelessness and greed will be why
It's the environment we are choking 
Everyday we continue provoking 
Raping the the planet that keeps us alive
Damage is massive and trivialized
There's no species as covetous as us
A century of shame we symbolize 
Always wanting more, it's never enough...

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wallowing in greed

insatiably covetous*…

self poisoning me.

*Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

July 11, 2019
Edited on August 11, 2021
1st place, "A BRIAN STRAND 4 or 5 line" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 8/12/2021....

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Is it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence

To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse

In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...

     to drip, untripped

From my lips


The devil rides
my prideful hide
Chastise with whip and spur
Damning the span 
Between who I am
And who I wish I were.

3/6/20...

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In the heart’s tunnel
lurks a murderer*
conspiring as friend
with human nature 
enraged by hatred…

midst bitterness
covetous angst
and greedy wrath
the slayer prowls...

devouring
smiting foe----
killer screams…

“guilty---
I am…

Lord!”

*Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders.

February 1, 2021...

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The brain is inept at trying to divine

   the creative fantasies of a noble,

           at times, scheming 

                     mind,


much less probe, from end to start,

      the crimson contours of a 

    generous, at times, covetous 

                     heart.


  We can't fully know you and me;

   like jigsaw pieces, let us seem,

          at times, let us really 

                       be!...

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to celebrate a beautiful sin
on the green lake
a sequelae starts a covetous lust
of white skulls,

discovering oneself was as exciting
as the fondling of breast
for the first time –

innocent graveside, road burning
stretching to throbbing millions
harvesting endless tears;

inattention of grief
was the punishment of unknown
shredding the veil into bit pieces

the ferocious clawing
tears off the sunset of age.
your jealousy?
bitter screams?


SATISH VERMA...

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